FP: How to Edit/Delete Articles in a FrontPage Discussion Web

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows
• Microsoft FrontPage 97 for Windows with Bonus Pack
• Microsoft FrontPage for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.1

SUMMARY

This article describes how to edit or delete an article (page) submitted to a FrontPage discussion Web in FrontPage Explorer.

MORE INFORMATION

To delete or edit a page in a FrontPage discussion Web, use the appropriate method.

FrontPage 98, 97, and 1.1

1. In FrontPage Explorer, open the Web.

2. On the Tools menu, click Web Settings, and then click the Advanced tab.

3. Under Options, click to select the "Show documents in hidden directories" check box.

4. Click Apply. Click Yes. Click OK.

5. On the View menu, click Folder. Expand the Discussion Web Table Of Contents.

6. Select the article you want to edit or delete.

   The links to the individual articles will be represented as links from the Tocproto.htm page.

   The address (URL) of each discussion group article ends with an eight-digit integer (these addresses are created in sequential order).

       - To edit the article, open it and make the changes you want. Save the
         file without changing the URL.
   

       - To delete the article, select it, and then click Delete on the Edit
         menu
   

7. On the Tools Menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

8. On the View menu, click Refresh.

FrontPage 1.0 for Windows

NOTE: In FrontPage 1.0, if you delete a page in the middle of a threaded FrontPage Web, the "previous" and "next" links on the navigation bar will break. Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you edit the page rather than delete the page. In FrontPage versions 1.1 and later, "previous" and "next" links are unaffected when you delete articles from the middle of the thread.

1. Open the Web in FrontPage Explorer.

2. On the Tools menu, click Web Settings, and then click the Parameters tab.

3. Click Add, and then type vti_showhiddenpages. Leave the Value field blank.

4. Click OK and then refresh the FrontPage Web by clicking Refresh on the View menu.

5. On the View menu, click Folder. Locate the Tocproto.htm page.

6. On the View menu, click Outline to see the links from the Tocproto.htm file.

7. Find the article that you want to edit or delete.

   The address (URL) of each discussion group article ends with an eight-digit integer (these addresses are created in sequential order).

       - To edit the article, open it in FrontPage Editor and make
         the changes you want. Save the file without changing the URL.
   

         NOTE: DO NOT open the Tocproto.htm file in a program OTHER than
         FrontPage Editor.  Doing so will break links to that file.
   

       - To delete the article, switch to Summary view, select the file, and
         then click Delete on the Edit menu. This will break the previous and
         next links on the FrontPage 1.0 Discussion Web navigation bar.
   

         After you delete the article, switch to Summary or Link
         view, locate the _discuss/tocproto.htm page, open it
         (give it a title if prompted), and delete the link to the
         article.